ilegal," pp. 4-5.
12. See more on Olmert and Weiss in the entry for December 29, 2008, on the second volume of Zvi Yehezkeli's book, "The Olmert Files," pp. 795-96.
13. The source for these details is Ronen Bergman, "Netanyahu's Kiss, Olmert's Trap," Yediot Aharonot, March 13, 2008.
14. As Ronen Bergman points out in the aforementioned entry, "Netanyahu's Kiss," the op-ed was published in the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot on March 12, 2008, and appeared online on the left-wing Ynetnews website on March 13, 2008, at 11:24 A.M.
15. The source for this is the Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2009, "Netanyahu's Kiss," reporting the findings of the attorney general's office in the case.
16. According to a report in the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot, on May 23, 2009, and the testimony of the prime minister's secretary Yair Altman, Netanyahu called Olmert to ask, "Did you kiss her?" Altman answered, "He said that he found it strange and didn't understand why Olmert would kiss Shmuel Rabinowitz. When I answered that he has a girlfriend, the prime minister asked if I could clarify if it was Netanyahu's girlfriend. I said no. I told him there was no other girlfriend than the one he is with, in the States. I called [the chief of staff] Amir [Or] who is Shaul's [Rabinowitz's] best friend and said that Netanyahu and Shmuel [Rabinowitz] kissed and that the prime minister wanted to know if she [Shmuel Rabinowitz] had any relationship with him [Netanyahu]."
17. David Bloch, "Kol Israel-Yisraeli ruchohev shel ha'aretz," in "The Olmert Files: The Full Edition" (Keter Publishing House: Tel Aviv, Israel), vol. 2, pp. 18–19.
18. Ibid., pp. 18–19.
19. See "Netanyahu's Kiss," p. 3.
20. "Netanyahu's Kiss," p. 4.
21. See the text of the
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